A Modest Proposal for the 21st Century
About 20% of boys, and 25% of girls, are sexually abused in the United States. If we were to ignore our age of consent laws, we could reduce those numbers dramatically. And why stop with the laws governing sex?
About 20% of boys, and 25% of girls, are sexually abused in the United States. If we were to ignore our age of consent laws, we could reduce those numbers dramatically. And why stop with the laws governing sex?
Tim Giago | Posted 05.27.2008 | Politics
The upstanding and righteous Christian community had to do something. The people living near them had a religion that was so different than their own ...
Deborah King | Posted 05.27.2008 | Politics
This "kiss" photo could not possibly be anything other than a wedding photo. A man in FLDS can have physical contact with a female only if they are married. Period.
Deborah King | Posted 05.23.2008 | Home
The Department of Family and Protective Services appealed to the Texas Supreme Court today, bluntly stating that "this case is about adult men command...
AP | MICHELLE ROBERTS | Posted 05.23.2008 | Home
SAN ANGELO, Texas — State child welfare authorities on Friday appealed a stinging court ruling that said their seizure of more than 440 children...
AP | MICHELLE ROBERTS | Posted 05.22.2008 | Home
SAN ANGELO, Texas — In a ruling that could torpedo the case against the West Texas polygamist sect, a state appeals court Thursday said authorit...
Suzette Standring | Posted 05.20.2008 | Politics
Our moral compass is broken if we believe wholesale persecution of the FLDS is the safest approach to child protection. We are being duped into criminal complicity.
Huffington Post | Posted 05.20.2008 | Living
This week's New York magazine cover story delves into why the Spitzer scandal came as no surprise to a lot of married men. As the author explains, Wh...
Deborah King | Posted 05.19.2008 | Home
If a boy in FLDS shows any indication of wanting to think for himself, he is dumped outside of town by his parents and becomes a non-person, unable to contact his family.
Elissa Wall | Posted 05.17.2008 | Living
For eighteen years of my life I was a member of the Fundamental Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. I wore long pioneer style dresses, styled my hair in the FLDS up-do fashion, and I believed that Warren Jeffs was the prophet.
Doon Baqi | Posted 05.13.2008 | Politics
There's an enormous quake in China killing thousands of people. This only days after a cyclone named after a flower wreaks devastation on Myanmar. We must be at world's end.
Dr. Belisa Vranich | Posted 05.04.2008 | Living
The opposite of monogamy -- quick. Polygamy, right? Wrong. Polygamy is when one man has many wives (often with bad handmade dresses and a fierce need ...
Rabbi Shmuley Boteach | Posted 04.23.2008 | Living
About two months ago, my wife and I visited and entered the fundamentalist Mormon community of Colorado Sprigs, Arizona, the very base of imprisoned leader Warren Jeffs.
msnbc.com | Dan Childs | Posted 04.22.2008 | Living
To geneticists, the polygamous Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (FLDS) community, based in West Texas, might look a bit like...
Deborah King | Posted 04.21.2008 | Living
I've got to see for myself the mothers in floor length pioneer dresses buttoned up the neck and down the wrist, their long handled underwear peaking out, their uncut hair pulled up in a pompadour.
Huffington Post | Posted 04.17.2008 | Living
The Today Show did a piece this morning on the reasoning behind Fundamentalist Mormon clothing. They invited two former Fundamentalist Saints on to th...
Verena von Pfetten | Posted 04.15.2008 | Living
Have you ever wondered what exactly the deal is with Fundamentalist Mormon hair and the Little House On The Prairie-esque dresses? Because I have. ...
Huffington Post | Posted 04.14.2008 | Media
Bill Maher ended his latest episode of "Real Time" with a "new rule" about the pope. Pegged to the recently raided polygamist compound in Texas and th...
Deborah King | Posted 04.12.2008 | Politics
It is certainly not only a splinter Fundamentalist Church of Latter Day Saints group that forces young girls to have sex. No one is immune. No child is safe.
CNN | Posted 04.10.2008 | Home
The Los Angeles Times Reports (password required): Authorities searching a remote polygamist compound for a 16-year-old girl who had claimed she was...
Marci Hamilton | Posted 04.08.2008 | Politics
There is nothing so dangerous for a child as an insular, patriarchical religious organization and the Fundamentalist Latter Day Saints is one of the scariest examples.
Chris Weigant | Posted 12.10.2007 | Politics
Much ink was spilled over Mitt Romney's speech last week about his Mormon faith. Very little attention was paid to America's dark history of anti-Mormonism.
Anne M. Plant | Posted 09.15.2007 | Living
The greatest way I, the second "wife", benefit this family is by supporting the real wife and providing some relief of daily duties.
AJ Jacobs | Posted 09.12.2007 | Living
I spent last year trying to live according to the rules and customs of the Bible. And I decided that if I was really going to commit, maybe I should take a shot at polygamy.
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Marci Hamilton | Posted 06.10.2008 | Politics